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Palm
Beach
PostVWcd.,
November
13,
19t8-41
Hughes'
Isolation
-
Foils
Complaints
Movie
Director
Uses
New,
Personal
Approach
summer.
Then
he
went
to
Rome
and
played
a
gangster
in
"At
Any
Price,"
and
he
had
said
he'd
never
play
another
gangster.
But
there
was
a
rea
HOLLYWOOD
(NEA)
-
A
fresh
approach
to
movie-making.
Peter
Falk
says
that's
what
his
buddy,
John
Cassavetes,
is
doing.
"He's
the
only
director
In
America,"
Pete
says,
"who
does
pictures
very
personally."
His
"Faces"
was
an
artistic
triumph.
In
January,
he
and
A
Script
Change
Shakes
Opera
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ri
Falk
and
Ben
Gazzara
will
make
"The
Husbands."
"The
three
of
us
get
together
whenever
we
can,"
he
says,
"and
we
talk
over
every
scene.
By
the
time
we
begin
to
shoot,
we'll
know
those
characters
s
well
as
we
know
ourselves."
Falk
did
"Castle
Keep"
In
Yugoslavia
last
spring
and.
Corsaro,
people
consider
such
Interventions
unrealistic
without
necessarily
denying
they
can
happen.
Corsaro
points
out
he
hasn't
tampered
In
the
slightest
with
Gounod's
score.
The
heavenly
choir
still
rings
out
its
promise
of
salvation
as
Marguerite
comes
to
her
end
on
earth.
Nor
is
there
any
change
as
Mephls-tophcles
Is
made
to
take
the
character
of
a
20th
Century
jet-set
profligate
rather
than
that
of
a
demon
straight
from
hell.
He
slinks
and
cowers
not
at
all,
not
even
In
the
presence
of
the
cross.
Indeed,
he
himself
makes
the
sign
of
the
cross,
with
scornful
mirth.
In
Gounod's
day
and
up
to
the
present
time
such
a
portrayal
of
the
devil
was
as
unthinkable
as
hanging
Marguerite.
But
times
have
changed
in
that
regard,
too,
inCorsaro'sview.
He
is
one
of
the
modern
stage
craftsmen
the
New
York
City
Opera
employs
in
its
continuing
game
of
oneupmanshlp
with
the
Metropolitan
Opera,
Its
tradition-bound
neighbor
in
the
Lincoln
Center
of
the
Performing
Arts.
But
It
may
not
be
one
up
on
the
Met
as
regards
"Faust."
There
Is
no
telling
the
City
Opera's
revolution
will
stick.
It
may
be
the
operatic
public
will
suppress
it,
as
it
has
many
another
effort
to
make
the
old
operas
compatible
with
20th
Century
views.
The
issue
won't
be
joined
until
Dec.
30
when
the
Met
gives
Its
first
"Faust"
of
the
season.
You
can
be
sure
Its
Mephistopheles
will
be
authentically
the
devil
of
Gounod's
time
and
Marguerite
won't
hang.
,
in?
I
HOLLYWOOD
(NANA)
"Hope
Springs
Eternal,"
and
"you
can't
blame
a
guy
for
trying
.
.
."
these
are
among
the
many
reasons
why
frustrated
entertainers
In
the
Las
Vegas
areas
keep
on
trying
to
get
hold
of
the
kingpin
of
isolation
to
solve
their
difficulties.
Frank
Sinatra,
after
attempting
to
smash
up
the
Desert
Inn
Hotel
a
couple
of
years
ago
and
then
being
smashed
down
himself
by
a
husky
security
guard,
put
in
frantic
telephone
calls
for
Howard
Hughes,
the
new
owner,
who
was
operating
things
from
the
top
floor
of
the
spot.
Sinatra
was
so
incensed
at
being
ignored
by
the
billionaire
hermit
that
he
broke
his
contract
as
a
Desert
Inn
entertainer,
moving
over
to
Caesar's
Palace,
along
with
buddy-pals
Dean
Martin
and
Sammy
Davis,
Jr.
Ever
since
that
notorious
escapade,
one
celebrity
after
another
has
been
utilizing
every
manner
and
means
of
stirring
the
evasive
Mr.
Hughes
into
Manager
Sought
LONDON
(AP)
The
Beatles
are
looking
for
a
successful
businessman
to
direct
their
show
business
empire.
Lord
Beeching,
55-year-old
physicist
and
former
deputy
chairman
of
Imperial
Chemical
Industries,
said
today
he
had
been
approached
by
the
quartet.
He
was
reportedly
offered
the
equivalent
of
$48,000
a
year
about
half
what
ICI,
one
of
Britain's
biggest
industries,
paid
him
to
take
charge
of
their
multimillion-dollar
Apple
Record
Co.
Beeching
said
he'd
"like
to
help
the
Beatles
as
I
greatly
admire
their
talent.
But
It
is
not
an
appointment
to
which
I
could
give
total
involvement
as
I
see
it
now."
Meanwhile,
a
preview
of
the
Beatles'
newest
record
album
drew
favorable
notices
from
two
critics,
both
women.
"Those
wicked
Beatles
have
ifted
pop
music
from
ragtime
to
the
present
day
and
satirized
other
people's
styles,"
wrote
Judith
Simons
In
the
Daily
Express.
"The
opening
track
"Back
in
the
U.S.S.R."
Is
a
Beach
Boy
send-up
intensified
by
the
naive
nostalgia,
usually
applied
to
a
yearning
for
the
U.S.
"The
hill-billy
'Rock
Racoon'
should
have
Frankle
and
Johnny
turning
in
their
graves."
Anne
Nightingale
wrote
In
the
Daily
Sketch:
"Intellectuals
who
try
to
read
fantasy,
sex,
psychcdellia
and
Freud
Into
their
songs
will
have
a
hard
time.
NEW
YORK
(UPD-For
over
a
hundred
years
heaven
has
unfailingly
Intervened
countless
times
to
prevent
Marguerite
from
being
hanged.
Now
there
is
a
switch.
Heaven
doesn't
intervene.
Marguerite
climbs
the
gallows'
steps
and
a
hangsman
puts
the
noose
around
her
neck.
That
is
happening
at
the
New
York
City
Opera,
in
its
new
production
of
Charles
Gounod's
"Faust."
To
you
it
may
seem
a
small
potato
but
In
anything
as
tradition-bound
as
opera,
it
is
earth-shaking,
a
revolution.
Opera
people
are
in
a
dither
about
it.
Some
approve
on
the
grounds
that
it's
high
time
for
the
operatic
stage
to
become
realistic.
Since
Marguerite's
crime
was
infanticide,
a
hanging
is
not
out
of
keeping.
Others
consider
it
a
shocking
liberty
to
take
with
a
greatly
pitied
heroine.
Frank
Corsaro,
the
staging
director
who
did
this
to
her,
defends
it
by
contrasting
the
current
view
of
heavenly
interventions
with
the
one
which
reigned
In
the
1850's
when
Gounod
and
his
librettists
put
"Faust"
together
for
its
first
performance,
on
March
19,
1859.
In
those
days
heavenly
Interventions
were
accepted
as
a
matter
of
course
when
people
considered
they
were
merited,
and
to
them
Marguerite
merited
one
by
making
herself
worthy
of
forgiveness.
They
were
pleased
when
she
escaped
the
gallows
by
being
taken
to
heaven
In
their
full
view.
These
days,
according
to
SWINGING
ANTICS
Actress
"The
Great
Bank
Robbery,"
a
Mai-Kim
Novak
and
members
of
the
comb
Stuart
production.
The
come-Mitchell
Boys
Choir
help
Zero
Mos-
dy-western
is
due
to
be
released
by
tel
in
his
chandelier-swinging
antics
Warner
Brothers-Seven
Arts
early
while
filming
a
song
sequence
in
next
year.
Playwright
Has
Happy-Time
In
'Players
'
Drama
getting
on
the
horn
and
to
date
not
one
of
them
has
even
come
close.
It
was
only
natural
then
for
singer
Bobby
Darin,
offended
by
the
new
management
of
the
Vegas
Frontier
Hotel
Howard's
latest
casino
acquisition
to
ring
that
answerless
telephone
in
an
effort
to
get
Howard
to
intercede
and
conciliate
his
quarrel.
The
phone
always
rings
in
the
Hughes
quarters
and
someone
always
answers.
But,
as
the
stories
go,
names
of
the
callers
are
relayed
to
the
big
boss
by
teletype.
When
Hughes
got
the
Bobby
Darin
message
he
Is
said
to
have
replied,
"Bobby
who?"
Anyway
Bobby
took
his
walk
out
of
the
place,
flew
back
to
Hollywood
and
spent
$500
for
a
page
ad
in
Daily
Variety.
He
thereby
got
his
message
across
to
Hughes
in
the
form
of
an
"open
letter."
It
read:
"Dear
Mr.
Hughes:
I
hope
that
your
associates'
who
precipitated
my
exit,
permit
you
to
see
my
letter
to
you
fully
explaining
my
unprecedented
action."
Darin
claims
this
is
the
first
time
in
his
career
he
ever
took
a
powder
on
a
contracted-for
engagement.
Incidentally,
the
reason
he
became
so
worked
up,
he
explained
In
TV
interviews,
was
that
the
sound
system
particularly
one
sour
speaker
prevented
audiences
from
properly
assimilating
the
rich
mellow
tones
of
his
"Mack
the
Knife"
voice.
It
is
not
known
whether
Mr.
Hughes
has
yet
received
Mr.
Darin's
"open
letter."
It
is
not
known,
either,
whether
he
subscrives
to
Hollywood
Daily
Variety.
With
such
a
large
and
well-trained
legion
of
secret
services
surrounding
him,
and
his
access
to
a
network
of
private
communication,
it
would
seem
hardly
necessary
that
he
subscribe
to
anything.
And
he
knows
what's
going
on
In
every
remote
corner
of
his
various
hotels
on
the
strip
this
through
an
involved
closed
television
circuit,
whereby
the
flip
of
a
switch
will
give
him
a
closeup
and
an
earful
of
whatever
the
play
or
the
ploy
might
be.
Who
knows,
he
may
have
been
looking
in
on
all
of
Bobby
Darin's
shen-nanigans
that
opening
night!
Meanwhile,
life
goes
on
as
usual
in
Las
Vegas.
One
new
hotel
rises
to
outdo
the
last
one.
Patronage
has
more
than
doubled
in
the
past
five
years.
You
have
to
know
somebody
who
knows
somebody
In
order
to
get
a
week-end
reservation,
and
as
for
the
approaching
Christmas
and
New
Year's
season,
you'd
better
be
a
favorite
cousin
of
one
of
the
hotel
owners.
But
the
real
millenlum
will
be
reached
in
Las
Vegas
some
night
when
an
angry
entertainer
puts
in
a
call
to
the
upper
reaches
of
the
Desert
Inn
Hotel
and
Howard
Hughes
himself
answers
the
phone!
SUSAN
HAYWARD
"VALLEY
OF
THE
DOLLS"
-IN
COLOR
bUUN
"COQCAN'S
BLUFF"
R
BOSTON
STRANGLER
(C)N.Y.
Time
New
Hmk
NEW
YORK,
-
There
may
be
a
touch
of
tears
in
William
Gibson's
new
drama,
"A
Cry
of
Players,"
but
this
is
strictly
the
happy
time
for
the
playwright.
Columbia
Pictures
and
Martin
Poll
Films
have
not
only
acquired
movie
rights
to
"Players,"
which
has
opened
at
the
Vivian
Beaumont
Theater,
but
they
have
engaged
Gibson
to
adapt
his
work
as
well.
"Players"
was
actually
Gibson's
first
play;
having
v
n
(UPlTelephoto)
who
is
married
to
a
girl
named
Anne.
But
any
resemblance
to
persons
Shakespearean
is
altogether
etc.,
etc.
"Heart
of
Darkness"
at
long
last
is
coming
out
of
the
literary
shadows
and
into
the
movie
spotlight.
Kenneth
flyman,
Warner
Brothers.-Seven
Arts'
production
chief,
reports
that
Joseph
Conrad's
classic,
published
in
1902,
"is
definitely
set
to
be
made
In
Africa
next
spring."
Director
Andrezej
Wajda
("Ashes
and
Diamonds,"
"Kanal")
will
make
his
English-langauge
debut
with
his
countryman's
story.
Conrad's
tale
of
a
white
trader's
experiences
with
colonial
exploitation
in
the
Belgian
Congo
will
use
a
British
cast
and
will
be
shot
in
Central
Africa.
"Exactly
where,"
says
Hyman,
"depends
on
the
political
situation
there
next
year."
Since
so
much
Conrad
has
been
transferred
successfully
from
library
to
film
("Outcast
of
the
Islands,"
"Lord
Jim,"
"Victory"
and
"The
Secret
Sharer"),
why
not
throw
a
spotlight
on
"Heart
of
Darkness"?
AWARD
WINNER
"THE
GRADUATE"
IN
COLOR
Therapy
Described
son
he
did
it.
"Cassavetes
was
In
It,
too,
he
says.
"This
gave
Us
a
chance
to
talk
about
'The
Hus
bands.'"
-l
After
"The
Husbands,"
he'll
play
another
gangster,
l,n
)i
film
called
"Mickey
and
Nicky."
There's
a
reason
for
that,
too.
"Elaine
May
wrote
it,"
he
says.
"And
I
think
It's
the
best
study
of
a
hoodlum
I've
ever
read."
Mike
Douglas
wasn't
there
for
the
big
party
Group
VV
Productions
tossed
to
honor
Mike
Douglas
and
his
visit
to
Hollywood.
He
couldn't
make
It
he
was
taping
shows
to
beat
the
musicians'
strike.
But
Marty
Allen
was
there.
This
is
the
new
Marty
Allen
going
it
alone,
since
he
and
Steve
Rossi
broke
up
amicably,
and
with
a
neater
haircut
for
his
dramatic
debut
on
The
Big
Valley.
"The
first
night
I
had
this
haircut,"
he
says,
"Frenchy
his
wife)
woke
me
up
at
4
J.m.
and
said,
'You'll
have
to
.eave
now
my
husband
Is
.'oming
home.'
Imagine
a
omic's
wife
pulling
a
gag
like
that."
On
the
last
night
Allen
and
Rossi
worked
together,
Marty-got
this
wire
from
Don
Rickl-es:
"All
right,
dummy,
let's
see
how
you
get
along
without
the
other
dummy."
I
think
Its
time
for
another
fat
man
to
make
it
in
pictures,"
said
Mel
Berger,
and,
he
is
the
fat
man
he
has!ln
mind.
Berger,
at
the
moment,
weighs
In
somewhere
between
300
and
320.
He's
6-foot-3.
.
.
He
went
on
a
diet
oncQ,
when
he
was
19,
but
as
soon
as
he
stopped
dieting,
the
weigh,'
came
back.
A
doctor
then
told
him
he
could
lose
weight,,
'but
he
would
have
to
stay
on
a
strict
diet
the
rest
of
his
life.
,
"No,
thanks,"
Mel
says.
"I'd
rather
die
at
60
after
a
happy
life
than
live
to
be
70
and
be
miserable."
He
doesn't
worry
about
his
weight.
He
emptied
four
sugars
into
his
coffee
and
happily
contemplated
his
calories,
JOSEPH
tlEVINE
onrumi
:
-
-if
won
the
Topeka
Civic
Theater's
$500
prize
way
back
in
1W7.
It
was
snapped
up
for
Broadway
by
Margaret
Webster
and
Carly
Wharton
but,
show
biz
being
show
biz
it
showed
up
again
at
the
Stock-bridge,
Mass.,
Berkshire
Theater
Festival
(headed
by
Gibson),
at
which
point
it
was
acquired
for
the
Vivian
Beaumont.
The
story
of
"Players"
concerns
an
Elizabethan
playwright
by
the
name
of
Will
says
the
participants
are
able
to
enjoy
sensual
pleasure
without
sexual
involvement
because
they
are
so
emotionally
"turned
on."
Theaters
Today
BOCA
RATON
"Boston
Stranglcr,"
2:25,
4:45,
7:05,
9:25.
CARiCf-REE
Duffy,"
2:10,
4:1X1,
5:5(1.
7:45,
9:40.
COLONY
"Valley
of
the
Dolls,"
7:05,
9:25.
FLORIDA
"2.0U:
A
Space
Otlvasrv."
2:1X1,
5:1X1,
8:30.
LAKE
-
.
"Bill
Wallace
of
China,"
3:
.10,
5:40,
7:45,9:50.
LOEWS
CINEMA
BOYNTON
"CarpelbagKei's,"
4:15.
9:15,
"Nevada
Smith,"
2:00,
7:1X1.
LOEW'S
CINEMA
70
"Helea."
2:011,
4:00.
6:00.
8:00,
111:011.
PLAZA
"Boston
Strancler,"
1:00,
3:10.
5:20.
7:.10.9:JO.
PLAYBOY
"Odd
Tastes."
2:1X1,
4:00.
6:011,
K
00
10:00,
"Bad
(iirls
;o
To
Hell."
3:00,
5:00.
7:00.9:00.
RIVIERA
"Thet;raduate,"7:25.9:40.
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